Showing papers in "Sustainable Cities and Society in 2017"

TL;DR: The applied theoretical inquiry into smart sustainable cities of the future is deemed of high pertinence and importance—given that the research in the field is still in its early stages, and that the subject matter draws upon contemporary and influential theories with practical applications.

TL;DR: A taxonomy has been defined in order to help researchers make an informed decision and choose the right model for their problem (long or short term, low or high resolution, building to country level).

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage approach for allocation of EV parking lots and distributed renewable resources (DRRs) in power distribution network is proposed, which considers both the economical benefits of parking lot investor and the technical constraints of distribution network operator.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-optimal combination of stand-alone hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) for a large resort center located in South China Sea, Malaysia (SCSM) has been proposed with detailed operational performance analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the negative impact of urbanization over a time and its effect on increasing trend of temperature and degradation of urban ecology was assessed using the Landsat thermal data and field survey of Lucknow city, India.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review on the synergistic effect of different air purification technologies, air filtration theory, materials and standards is presented, which aims to drive the future of air filter technology research and development in achieving sustainable and healthy building ventilation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined different mitigation strategies of the urban microclimate by taking into consideration the campus of the Sapienza University of Rome, using ENVI-met V 3.1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the nature, practice, and impact of ICT of the new wave of computing for urban sustainability as a form of science and technology (S&T) within the defining context of smart sustainable cities.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-objective optimization problem is formulated to obtain objective variables in order to reduce power losses, voltage fluctuations, charging and demand supplying costs, and EV battery cost.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of various trees on urban micrometeorological conditions in both open space and high density settings, and how they regulate outdoor thermal comfort.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for strategic smart sustainable city development based on scientific principles, theories, and academic disciplines and discourses used to guide urban actors in their practice towards sustainability and analyze its impact.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the spatial and temporal patterns of land surface temperature (LST) in Nanchang City, China in the context of the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon.

TL;DR: An intelligent energy management framework that can be used to minimize both electrical peak load and electricity cost is proposed and a multi-objective mixed integer linear programming (MOMILP) is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the most relevant existing European policies and legislation for the built environment, and the construction materials in particular, which can be exploited from both policy makers and the scientific community as guidance for transforming in a truly green sustainable construction market.

TL;DR: A Matrix is proposed to help scholars and planners in understanding and analyzing how and to what extent the contribution of sustainable urban forms to sustainability can be improved through ICT of the new wave of computing as to the underlying novel technologies and their applications.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse options for the future development of engineered wood products taking into consideration policy barriers and technical and environmental potentials for accelerating market introduction as part of a comprehensive scenario approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sustainable day-ahead scheduling of the grid-connected home-type microgrids (H-MG) with the integration of non-dispatchable/distpatchable distributed energy resources and responsive load demand is co-investigated, in particular to study the simultaneously existed uncontrollable and controllable production resources despite the existence of responsive and nonresponding loads.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed and comprehensive approach in identification and listing of different factors governing energy efficiency in buildings in Indian context is presented. And a roadmap is developed to help overcome these barriers over long, medium and short term respectively.

TL;DR: The results of these studies suggest the most favorable canyon geometries in terms of pedestrian thermal comfort and support the incorporation of basic climatic parameters into urban design as discussed by the authors, which is the most relevant work for our work.

TL;DR: This model is used to recommend medicine with side effects for different symptoms collected from heterogeneous IoT sensors and made it semantically interoperable, to deliver semantic interoperability among heterogeneity IoT devices in health care domain.

TL;DR: An overview of game-based learning and the state of serious games (SG) for environmental management is provided, offering insight into their potential as effective tools in facilitating environmental education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the benefits of public bike-share schemes in economic terms and showed that the benefits associated with time savings far exceed the benefits that are commonly claimed for modal transfer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors stated that Swedish people cherish summer period and prefer more outdoor activities in summer because of long winter with harsh out-of-season weather conditions, and that outdoor microclimate is important to determine the quality of outdoor spaces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how social innovation fits in the urban sustainability discourse and in what way it empowers urban citizens and their communities towards serving their interests, identifying and describing four primary citizen profiles in social innovation for sustainable urban development.

TL;DR: In this paper, an assessment framework is proposed that uses a hierarchy of readily assessable sustainability indicators, parameters and sub-indicators to provide a holistic social sustainability performance value of residential buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic framework to analyze the issues at stake in urban energy planning, arguing that it is a necessary step to improve and develop adapted solutions which embrace the entirety of the problem.

TL;DR: An interoperable intelligent building design is proposed for the creation of advanced building managements schemes, by integrating the assets of current automation tools and the emerging innovations to catalyze the market of intelligent buildings in the context of smart cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a parametric analysis of the impact of urban form on domestic energy consumption for heating and cooling for Mediterranean city of Thessaloniki.

TL;DR: In this article, the responsiveness of the microclimate simulation tool ENVI-met V4 in identifying the variation in urban geometry as reported in the field measurements was analyzed by comparing the measured and the simulated data by analysing a particular challenge in complex geometry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed a HEM controller on the basis of four heuristic algorithms: BFOA, GA, Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO), and WDO.